OpenCart to VTEX Migration

Decided to switch eCommerce platforms from OpenCart to VTEX?

Migrating a digital commerce store onto another platform is a huge undertaking that Optimum7’s programming engineers can assist you in, with the help of our automated processes. Within weeks, we can transfer all of your product and sales-related data onto VTEX’s platform error-free. By creating a duplicate store, we’re able to capture the source database that will act as the original representation of your OpenCart store and migrate all of your data onto your new VTEX platform. This process will not disrupt your current operations. The front end of your eCommerce store will look exactly the same and your customers won’t notice the difference. Also, the back end of your operations will run smoothly. You’ll still be able to process online orders.

Optimum7 also has the capabilities to enhance your new VTEX eCommerce store with customized functionalities that will improve the shoppers’ buying experience ultimately resulting in an easier and faster checkout and increased revenue.

What kind of data can be migrated from OpenCart to
VTEX?

Supported Data

Products

Migrate all of your product images, descriptions, product attributes, SKUs products and variants such as weight, pricing, along with the manufacturer’s information onto VTEX. Other sales-related information such as the quantity and price can all be migrated from OpenCart to VTEX

Product Categories

Two important SEO attributes that are critical to any eCommerce website are the meta-title and description. Equally as important are the categories description and category images. These are all inclusive within the migration process.

Customer Order Information

You’ll also be able to migrate invoices and with it, customer contact information gaining valuable data to analyze demographics to target the right pool of potential buyers. Along with the customers’ name, email address, telephone number, and company name, you’ll be able to acquire the order date, order status, product price, quantity ordered, tax price, shipping price, and order comments.

Retain all of your current and past promotions. Any information that’s related to gift cards, coupon codes, Coupon from Date or Coupon to Date, Uses Per Coupon, Uses Per Customer along with the type of discount, the discount amount, and the amount spent can all be
migrated to VTEX.

Product Reviews

All of the information that’s related to products reviews will be migrated over to the VTEX platform. Fields such as Created Date, Rate, User name, Comment, Product, and Title are all part of the migration process.

Additional Options

Migrate your 301 redirects during the eCommerce migration to avoid loss of or decrease in organic traffic. Re-organize your inventory to a proper parent/child listing by bulk editing your category names and descriptions without HTML tags. You’ll also be able to add custom functionalities that will improve shoppers’ buying experience. Do all of this and safeguard your product images URLs.

For blog posts, migrate the category descriptions along with all of the images and product descriptions related to each post.

How It Works

Ecommerce and VTEX Marketing

Switching platforms or websites might be potentially risky for your search engine rankings. Most marketing experts are very cautious while working on these migration projects.

With thousands of product pages on your VTEX site, these migrations must
be executed carefully. If the migration is done incorrectly, it can result in multiple 404 error pages. These 404 pages could cause you to lose your rankings and authority within days and destroy years of hard work.

Our specialists have compiled a list of critical data you’ll need to migrate from the OpenCart platform to VTEX. With the guidance of our advanced execution, you can safely migrate your store to a new and improved platform while retaining all the SEO ranking authority you’ve built up over the years. We know all the technical details of VTEX server settings to implement 301 redirects the correct way. (Htaccess, apache, admin settings etc.)

You have to generate a substantial amount of online sales to truly benefit from VTEX.

Onboarding takes 30-45 days

In a little over a month, you can start to take advantage of all of VTEX benefits.

Fee structure is percentage of sales.

Why migrate with Optimum7?

Optimum7 provides a fully automated migration that doesn't require any programming skills on your part. Through our services, you’re guaranteed to achieve an effortless and successful switch, free from bothersome bugs and glitches. You’ll have a newly established store that will provide the transformation you're looking for with everything in tact.